Palli (Pall)

Ball. Also bale; rating and Beaufort number. Part of a mini game-name area, see Sihi. Palli is also the only cobbled (munakivi, lit. egg stone) street in Nõmme. English ‘cobble’ may come from a Proto-Germanic base *kubb‑ meaning something rounded, while its German Kopfstein (lit. head(-shaped)-stone, nothing to do with cemeteries) is derived from the same PIE root of *keup‑, a hollow, as English ‘cup’ (see Kaevuri) and not, surprisingly, from PIE *kaput‑, head (see Hobusepea), opposite ends of the same hemisphericity, although the two are probably derived from a common root. But the ‘cobble’ stones here may be ‘setts’, in other words, stones that have literally been prepared or ‘set’, rather than being the naturally-occuring rounded ones.